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Located in Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico, OOHA's primary objective is to meet the high demand for affordable housing on the reservation that preserves our Tribal culture and traditions. Through innovative approaches to financing and implementation, OOHA creates sustainable new single and multifamily housing and rehabilitates existing substandard homes through the ongoing Housing and Self Determination Act. In addition to NAHASDA funds, OOHA seeks and utilizes a broad array of alternative methods of financing to support its development and rehabilitation projects. Our staff has a combined experience of over 25 years of development and housing management experience.

Madrid studio ÁBATON has just revealed the ÁPH80 Transportable House, a small prefab dwelling designed for two and sized to be easily transported by truck. The units are manufactured in Spain and could probably be shipped anywhere in Europe. For whatever reason, lately there seems to be a lot more interest and experimentation with prefab housing in Europe than in North America. The small house is a simple gabled rectangle with minimal exterior adornment. Roof and walls are both clad with a composite material made from wood fiber and cement. The sheets have a mottled gray appearance that would probably help the house blend right in within a natural setting, like some kind of angular rock outcrop. All the materials were selected on the basis of their environmental impact and ability to be recycled.

El objetivo general de OPEN HOUSE es desarrollar e implementar una metodología europea común de evaluación transparente de construcción, complementando las ya existentes, para la planificación y la construcción de edificios sostenibles a través de un enfoque abierto y una plataforma técnica.

Creating dwellings that can stand up to the extreme forces of nature presents a challenging design problem, no matter the locale. Hoping to address the issue of extensive loss of homes and displacement due to severe flooding in Southeast Asia, Vietnamese design firm H&P Architects created this low-cost, disaster-resistant housing prototype that actually floats atop a base made of reused oil drums.

The blue rectangle in the midst of all those oranges and reds is New York City's first certified Passivhaus project, a retrofit of a 1899 townhouse in the Park Slope area of Brooklyn. Blue is cold, meaning the exterior surfaces of the house aren't shedding energy. Around it are houses glowing with wasted energy.

The printing of the home and its assembly by construction company Heijmans is projected to take about three years. Though the firm doesn't ultimately wish to use plastic for the construction of buildings, the architect points out that "it's not that we think everyone should live in a plastic house, ha ha. It's the material that works at the moment."

Eco Village residents will have community produce gardens and common green spaces and walking trails. There are even plans for a small fleet of communal electric cars. Houses are designed to qualify for LEED-Platinum certification. Houses have their own photovoltaic arrays, between 5 kW and 6 kW in capacity, plus solar thermal systems designed to provide about half of the domestic hot water demand. A separate 75 kW PV installation at one end of the property will provide power for community purposes, such as lighting, and will also produce revenue that can go toward additional construction. The many energy enhancements should save a family between $200 and $300 per month in utility bills when compared to a conventional home of the same size and $100,000 over the course of the 30-year mortgage. Since the project was launched, there has been a 69% increase in the number of volunteer hours donated to the local Habitat chapter, and a 59% jump in the number of volunteers. In all, hundreds of volunteers donated 16,000 hours of time to get the first part of the project complete.

All the heating, cooling, humidity control and ventilation needs of the household are taken care of by a single heat pump based system, which was specially developed by Ty and Ben Newell at their company, Newell Instruments. The system manages to maintain a comfortable temperature and humidity level in the home, while it also brings in a constant flow of fresh air from the outside, which it achieves without the loss of conditioned air inside the house.

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Pequeñas miniviviendas prefabricadas que los canadienses añaden en su jardín para alquilar y tener unos ingresos extra.

"Many people think the idea of putting composting toilets in homes is crazy. One commenter noted earlier when I suggested it: "No one will want this inside their house. I know this, because I still have a few teeth in my head and a few friends in town." But more and more, people are going off-pipe; my friend Laurence Grant has done it for almost 20 years and wrote about it here; now energy consultant Allison Bailes describes how he did it in Green Building Advisor and how his bathroom actually smells better than yours."

O Pedras Salgadas Eco Resort, em Vila Pouca de Aguiar, que acaba de ser eleito "Edifício do ano 2012" pelos visitantes do site ArchDaily, proporciona-lhe uma estadia inesquecível nas suas modernas Eco Houses. Fica a apenas 1 hora do Porto e o cenário não poderia ser mais perfeito, a 580 m de altitude, em pleno Parque de Pedras Salgadas. As casas estão no meio das árvores, num projecto do arquitecto Luís Rebelo de Andrade. Pode desfrutar ainda o Spa Termal, recuperado pelo arquitecto Álvaro Siza Vieira. 

... healthy houses and a greener future for America

"James & Mau"

A Belkin gadget in the works will make it possible to see how much electricity we're spending on the things we use at home. Getting a better look at how we're using electricity could make it easier to conserve or to figure out when it's time to replace old appliances. The device is currently being tested in U.S. homes, and Belkin plans to install 10,000 of them over the next year in places like military housing and hotels. Rather than selling the device straight to consumers, Belkin is focused on working with utility and cable providers, enabling them to offer itemized bills to their customers. Maybe one day, the gadget could be built in to home meters.

Ikea is to sell solar panels at its British stores for the first time in an attempt to tap growth in the heavily subsidised green energy market. A solar panel owner receives subsidies for generating solar-sourced electricity as well as exporting excess power into the grid. An average semi-detached house with a south-facing roof would earn as much as £770 a year through subsidies and savings on energy bills, an Ikea case study showed.

The Start.Home centers on the Core, a module that houses all of the primary mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems including the kitchen, bathroom, and utility room. The Core then offers interactive feedback through a display as well as a mobile application. By centralizing the points of energy usage in the home in a single location and offering immediate feedback the residents of the Start

Arquitecto que diseña y construye casas con tierra además de otro tipo de edificios residenciales y de oficinas. Posible ejemplo de ecocasas.

Más argumentos sobre la posibilidad o no de fabricar casas como coches

The seaweed does not swell as such when it rains; it will be wet though. In the beginning all the way through, but later on we expect the seaweed to form a layer that stops the water, as it does in the old seaweed roofs that you find on the island of Laesoe. ...seaweed has exceptional acoustic properties. This creates surprisingly comfortable rooms while the ability to absorb and give off moisture contributes to regulate a good indoor climate.